WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission today cited six U.S. Senate and House
campaigns for failure to file the required July Quarterly financial disclosure report
covering activity for April 1, 2000 through June 30, 2000.

As of 5 p.m., July 28, 2000 disclosure reports from the following committees had not
been filed:

The report was due July 15, 2000, and should have included financial activity for the
period April 1, 2000, or from the inception of the committee, through June 30, 2000. If
sent by certified or registered mail, the report should have been postmarked by midnight
April 15.

Committees were notified of their filing requirements on June 21. Those
committees which did not file on the due date were notified on July 21 that reports had
not been received and that their names would be published if they did not respond within
four business days.

For this publication, the Commission has focused attention only on those campaigns
with primaries during the third quarter of 2000. The Commission publishes only the
names of those committees which have been designated by candidates as their principal
campaign committees.

Other political committees supporting Senate and House candidates in elections (those
which are not authorized units of a candidate's campaign) also are required to file
quarterly reports, unless they report monthly. Those committees are not published by the
FEC.

Further Commission action against non-filers and late filers is decided on a
case-by-case basis. Federal law gives the FEC broad authority to initiate enforcement
actions, including the imposition of civil penalties ($5,500 for "any violation"
and $11,000 for any "knowing and willful" violation.)